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By:Sue Cowling
Published on 1999 by
ISBN 9780751371963
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Friday, August 31, 2018
Animal Crackers
Animal Brucellosis
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By:Klaus Nielsen,J. Robert Duncan
Published on 1990-05-23 by CRC Press
ISBN 9780849358784
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This timely publication updates and standardizes currently used diagnostic procedures for this widespread, economically costly livestock disease. It includes state-of-the-art technology, now in limited use, which will replace the conventional methodology in the near future. The volume covers research done on improved diagnostic techniques, vaccines, taxonomy, epidemiology, pathology, and basic immunology. It is an important literature review for those more established in this field and serves as a guide to researchers or diagnosticians becoming involved with this disease.
Thursday, August 30, 2018
An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists
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By:Wilhelm Ellenberger
Published on 1956 by Courier Corporation
ISBN 9780486200828
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Detailed drawings showing the external anatomy, the musculature and the skeleton forms of lions, cows, dogs, and horses
Jane Goodall
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By:Katherine Krohn
Published on 2006-01-01 by Capstone
ISBN 9780736868853
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In graphic novel format, looks at the life of the zoologist, discussing her personal life as well as her work with chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania.
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Guide for laboratory animal facilities and care
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By:Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources (U.S.) Committee on Revisions of the Guide for Laboratory Animal Facilities and care,Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources (U.S.). Committee on the Guide for Laboratory Animal Facilities and Care,National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Animal Resources Branch
Published on 1968 by
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Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Animal Defenses
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By:Etta Kaner
Published on 1999 by Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 9781550744217
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Describes how animals use a variety of different techniques as a means of protection, including using camouflage coloring, hiding in burrows or the sand, using protective shells, spines, or bones, and living in groups.
Monday, August 27, 2018
The Animal Rights Crusade
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By:James M. Jasper
Published on 1992 by
ISBN 9780029161951
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Gives a history and analysis of the animal rights movement, and describes its highly publicized protests of and attacks on laboratories, cosmetic companies, women in furs, rodeos, circuses, and zoos
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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By:David Quammen
Published on 2012-10-01 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 9780393239225
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“Science writing as detective story at its best.” —Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Scientific American Best Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in common: the bugs that transmit these diseases all originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. In this gripping account, David Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge and asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?
Animal Social Complexity
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By:Frans B. M. De Waal,Peter L Tyack
Published on 2009-06-01 by Harvard University Press
ISBN 9780674034129
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For over 25 years, primatologists have speculated that intelligence, at least in monkeys and apes, evolved as an adaptation to the complicated social milieu of hard-won friendships and bitterly contested rivalries. Yet the Balkanization of animal research has prevented us from studying the same problem in other large-brained, long-lived animals, such as hyenas and elephants, bats and sperm whales. Social complexity turns out to be widespread indeed. For example, in many animal societies one individual's innovation, such as tool use or a hunting technique, may spread within the group, thus creating a distinct culture. As this collection of studies on a wide range of species shows, animals develop a great variety of traditions, which in turn affect fitness and survival. The editors argue that future research into complex animal societies and intelligence will change the perception of animals as gene machines, programmed to act in particular ways and perhaps elevate them to a status much closer to our own. At a time when humans are perceived more biologically than ever before, and animals as more cultural, are we about to witness the dawn of a truly unified social science, one with a distinctly cross-specific perspective?
Animal Rites
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By:Cary Wolfe
Published on 2003-02-01 by University of Chicago Press
ISBN 9780226905136
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In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously |the question of the animal.|
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Zoopolis
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By:Sue Donaldson,Will Kymlicka
Published on 2011-11-24 by OUP Oxford
ISBN 9780191620553
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Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. Zoopolis shifts the debate from the realm of moral theory and applied ethics to the realm of political theory, focusing on the relational obligations that arise from the varied ways that animals relate to human societies and institutions. Building on recent developments in the political theory of group-differentiated citizenship, Zoopolis introduces us to the genuine |political animal|. It argues that different types of animals stand in different relationships to human political communities. Domesticated animals should be seen as full members of human-animal mixed communities, participating in the cooperative project of shared citizenship. Wilderness animals, by contrast, form their own sovereign communities entitled to protection against colonization, invasion, domination and other threats to self-determination. |Liminal| animals who are wild but live in the midst of human settlement (such as crows or raccoons) should be seen as |denizens|, resident of our societies, but not fully included in rights and responsibilities of citizenship. To all of these animals we owe respect for their basic inviolable rights. But we inevitably and appropriately have very different relations with them, with different types of obligations. Humans and animals are inextricably bound in a complex web of relationships, and Zoopolis offers an original and profoundly affirmative vision of how to ground this complex web of relations on principles of justice and compassion.
An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists
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By:Wilhelm Ellenberger
Published on 1956 by Courier Corporation
ISBN 9780486200828
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Detailed drawings showing the external anatomy, the musculature and the skeleton forms of lions, cows, dogs, and horses
Pheromones and Animal Behaviour
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By:Tristram D. Wyatt
Published on 2003-02-27 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521485265
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Introduction to chemical communication and pheromones.
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Animal
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By:Kristy Thomas
Published on 2014-09-14 by
ISBN 9781630211592
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Fredrick is a dog. At least in his mind he is a dog. He has a master that he is faithful too that feeds him and gives him a cage to sleep in in the barn that is safe and comfortable. Fredrick has been with the family for years and as we watches and talks about all of the other dogs that have come through over the years he reminds us that he is the smartest and strongest dog in the barn. It is not until Fredrick meets a sweet beautiful cat named Evelyn that he starts to see the world differently. When master catches Evelyn in the barn with Fredrick he takes her out of the barn and beats her. It is what Evelyn says to Fredrick that forces him to listen and reflect on what is actually real. She yells at him that he is not a dog he is a man. It takes everything in her to make him see that this fact is true. Fredrick watches her die with him being the last thing that he sees. Fredrick finally begins to remember who he is. With the affects of slavery and years of abuse coming back into his memory he decides that he must stand up for once in his life to his oppressors. If only Evelyn had lived to see this dog, once again stand as a man. (*Actor must be African American)
The Dawn of Animal Life
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By:Martin F. Glaessner
Published on 1985-06-20 by CUP Archive
ISBN 9780521312165
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This 1985 book examines the origin of the present diversity of marine invertebrate animals. A brief review of the early stages in the history of life discusses the time-scale of the relevant geological periods alongside corresponding events in the evolutionary sequence. These views of the early history of life are then matched against the fossil record and conjectures drawn from the living fauna, enabling the author to attempt an overview of the early diversification of marine animal life. Transitions to the succeeding assemblages of shellbearing fossils in Palaeozoic rocks are discussed and a number of stratigraphic adjustments are suggested for the period in which evolutionary events had their greatest impact on oceans and marine rock strata. The need for an interdisciplinary approach to early evolution is emphasized.
Friday, August 24, 2018
Small Animal Dermatology
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By:Anita Patel,Peter Forsythe
Published on 2008 by Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 9780702028700
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This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. For most dermatological conditions several treatment and/or management options are available, making the situation even more complicated. Small Animal Dermatology is a handy reference for these cases and encourages the practitioner to pursue a definitive diagnosis and plan effective management even if the condition can not be cured. Unique new cased-based approach relating essential theory to clinical practice Modern, highly designed and illustrated so key information can be seen at a glance Self testing, MCQs and remediation means these books are ideally suited for CPD or as an exam revision aid Essential for all general small animal veterinary practitioners and students This is a series of must-have practical handbooks covering specific veterinary problems using a unique, consistent, cased-based approach. From simple routine first opinion cases to referrals and more complex clinical scenarios, the series provides the essential knowledge that will lead to improved skills and practice for veterinary practitioners undertaking clinical professional development or students nearing the end of their courses and needing a vital examination revision aid. New case-based approach helps relate essential theory to the real world of the busy clinic Each case outlines: initial presentation, clinical signs, examination techniques, differential diagnoses, treatment options, clinical tips and relevant nursing information Highly illustrated using full colour throughout so key information can be found at a glance Numerous self-assessment tests and multiple choice questions with remediation Ideally suited for CPD and as an exam revision aid
Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, 2nd Edition [2 volumes]
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By:Marc Bekoff
Published on 2009-11-25 by ABC-CLIO
ISBN 9780313352560
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A landmark publishing achievement on the subject, the new edition of this acclaimed encyclopedia is expanded to two volumes, covering the full range of issues related to animal protection. • Includes hundreds of alphabetically organized entries covering the full range of topics related to animal rights and welfare, including dog fighting, endangered species in zoos, animals as disease carriers, factory farming, veganism, and more • Encompasses the work of 150 contributors—experts from around the world that make up a virtual |who's who| in the broad areas of animal protection • Outlines a chronology of legislation and other important events that have had a significant impact on animal rights issues • Lists references for each entry, plus a comprehensive bibliography at the end of the encyclopedia
The Great Compassion
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By:Norm Phelps
Published on 2004 by Lantern Books
ISBN 9781590560693
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Buddhism ought to be an animal rights religion par excellence. It has long held that all life forms are sacred and considers kindness and compassion the highest virtues. Moreover, Buddhism explicitly includes animals in its moral universe. Buddhist rules of conduct--including the first precept, Do not kill --apply to our treatment of animals as well as to our treatment of other human beings. Consequently, we would expect Buddhism to oppose all forms of animal exploitation, and there is, in fact, wide agreement that most forms of animal exploitation are contrary to Buddhist teaching. Yet many Buddhists eat meat although many do not and monks, priests, and scholars sometimes defend meat-eating as consistent with Buddhist teaching. The Great Compassion studies the various strains of Buddhism and the sutras that command respect for all life. Norm Phelps, a longtime student of Buddhism and an acquaintance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, answers the central questions of whether Buddhism demands vegetarianism and whether the Buddha ate meat. He is not afraid to examine anti-animal statements in Buddhist lore particularly the issues of whether Buddhists in non-historically Buddhist countries need to keep or to jettison the practices of their historical homelands.|
Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Greek Comedy
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By:Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr
Published on 2007 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521860666
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Argues that the animal choruses in Greek comedy of the late fifth century may have been conscious revivals of an earlier tradition.
The Encyclopedia of Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare
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By:D. S. Mills,Jeremy N. Marchant-Forde
Published on 2010 by CABI
ISBN 9780851997247
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The practical focus of this authoritative, comprehensive encyclopedia promotes the understanding and improvement of animals' behaviour without compromising welfare. It will be an essential resource for practising veterinarians, researchers and students in zoology and ethology, and for all those working with and interested in animals and their welfare. --Book Jacket.
Victorian Animal Dreams
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By:Deborah Denenholz Morse,Martin A. Danahay
Published on 2007 by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 9780754655114
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The contributors examine various forms of human dominion over animals as manifest in fiction, performance, and the visual arts, as well as in hunting, killing, vivisection, and zookeeping. Distinguished by its acknowledgment of how the Victorians' obsession with animals continues to haunt twenty-first-century animal rights debates, Victorian Animal Dreams provides valuable insight into the burgeoning field of animal studies and points toward future studies of animals in the Victorian period.
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Animal Camouflage in the Forest
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By:Martha E. H. Rustad
Published on 2009-07-01 by Capstone
ISBN 9781429633246
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|Simple text and photographs present animals that are camouflaged in the forest|--Provided by publisher.
Animal Death
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By:Jay Johnston,Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
Published on 2013 by Sydney University Press
ISBN 9781743320235
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Animal death is a complex, uncomfortable, depressing, motivating and sensitive topic. For those scholars participating in Human-Animal Studies, it is - accompanied by the concept of 'life' - the ground upon which their studies commence, whether those studies are historical, archaeological, social, philosophical, or cultural. It is a tough subject to face, but as this volume demonstrates, one at the heart of human-animal relations and human-animal studies scholarship. ... books have power. Words convey moral dilemmas. Human beings are capable of being moral creatures. So it may prove with the present book. Dear reader, be warned. Reading about animal death may prove a life-changing experience. If you do not wish to be exposed to that possibility, read no further ... In the end, by concentrating our attention on death in animals, in so many guises and circumstances, we, the human readers, are brought face to face with the reality of our world. It is a world of pain, fear and enormous stress and cruelty. It is a world that will not change anytime soon into a human community of vegetarians or vegans. But at least books like this are being written for public reflection. From the Foreword by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
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By:Barbara Kingsolver,Camille Kingsolver,Steven L. Hopp
Published on 2009-10-13 by Harper Collins
ISBN 9780061795831
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Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. |As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain. |Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . .| Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. |This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air.| Includes an excerpt from Flight Behavior.
Animal Rights
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By:John M. Kistler
Published on 2000 by Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 9780313312311
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Presents an introduction to the subject, suggestions on searching the Internet, and a bibliography of literature on animal nature, fatal and nonfatal uses, animal populations, and animal speculations.
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